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How to Banish Your Inner Critic Without Using Alcohol
Melancholia, my old friend, threatens to swallow me, and I wonder if I should be on anti-depressants (again).
Chelsey Flood
Sep 2, 20195 min read
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How I Stopped Using Wine as Self-Care and What I Do Instead
The evolution of looking after myself from the drunk years to my fourth year sober.
Chelsey Flood
Aug 4, 20195 min read
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How To Survive A Wedding Sober
It’s a May wedding and I am so freshly sober that I don’t even know I’m getting sober.
Chelsey Flood
Jul 16, 20196 min read
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What if Drinking is the Sane Choice?
And if so, how do you live in reality without alcohol? When I was six I found a pink and featherless baby bird that had fallen from its...
Chelsey Flood
Jul 9, 20196 min read
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How a Writing Residency in the Arctic Forced Me to be Grateful
eighteen months sober, I arrived in the wilderness. September 2017 I travelled to Svalbard for a writing residency. For three weeks, we...
Chelsey Flood
Jun 23, 20196 min read
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Can Nature Get You Sober?
Drinking cured my social anxiety short-term, but made it worse long-term. After finally quitting I found a more constructive source of...
Chelsey Flood
Mar 8, 20198 min read
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Don’t We All Deserve a Treat?
“I can’t believe you didn’t even make it past Day Two,” Bea muttered. “It’s a beautiful day,” Kai said, squeezing her hand. “Don’t ruin...
Chelsey Flood
Jan 7, 20195 min read
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My First Ever Dry January
I am trying to stop drinking, but alcohol won’t let me.
Chelsey Flood
Jan 1, 20196 min read
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